Please drink virtual champagne with us. Youpi! Cheers to you! Our store has officially reached 100,000 items. That is a whopping number of vintage postcards online. Francois could you pass me the sword?
I want to try the unique and enthusiastic way of opening a champagne bottle, called "the art of sabering." Stand back this will be my first attempt! This technique calls for one to open the bottle by slicing off the top of it with a long saber. This is a feat that dates back to the 1800s, Napoleon Bonaparte and the French cavalry.
Several enticing stories revolve around this bit of history, but the most entertaining involved a test of Napoleon's newly assigned officers. Each assignee was given three horses, three bottles of champagne, three "willing girls" and three hours in which they needed to drink the champagne, have their way with the girls and traverse a rugged, 20 mile course. "Sabering" the bottle while on horseback could save precious minutes for other tasks. The victory cry of Napoleon's cavalry became "Sabre le champagne!"
On second thought a corkscrew will do just fine! I linked the top paragraph with a how to video in case you want a few sabering tips!Please subscribe here to my cpaphil - vintage postcard blog. Ohlala, I can't wait to see you again!
4 cool cats commented:
Congratulations on reaching the 100,000 mark. That is, indeed, quite a feat!
Marie, "Louis" thanks you for visiting The Frog Blog of Louis la Vache. You are right that it is acutally good to drink something hot such as soup or hot chocolate on a hot day - it helps make a person sweat and thus has a cooling effect on the body!
Congratulations!! Yes, it is time for champagne. But, I am going to leave the opening of the champagne to you. I am hopeless at it. Once I ordered a pizza just so I could get the delivery guy to open it for me. Pathetic, I know.
Continued success to you!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!! I'm so up for sharing in this celebration. Wow... 100,000 items? That is incredible.
I love this story of Napoleon's newly assigned officers. That is what I call effective military training!! :)
Wow! 100,000! Congrats! This calls for a silly poem!
All Hail Vintage Postcards!
(on the occasion of the100,000th)
Vingage Postcards as far as eyes can see.
Vintage postcards reaching back through history.
Vintage postcards recording all that lovely.
Vintage Postcards for all eternity!
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